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A foundational principle of IvyVest is that for most investors, there is a "95-5" rule in investing. Put simply: 95% of your results will come from what, to at least most investors, is 5% of your efforts. The 5% that the data proves really...

As we write this we are counting down the hours left in 2017, which among other things means we are well into the annual season where prognosticators everywhere make mostly-bad predictions about the year ahead. We say mostly-bad because there is...

Periodically we have always believed here that is worth stepping out of the here-and-now-- the noisy world of fluctuating markets and tweeting politicians – and consider some of the big questions from a fresh lens.

At IvyVest, we believe in investing in a variety of markets around the world in order to maximize the benefits of diversification. If, for instance, you happen to be living in Japan and the Japanese stock market suffers a twenty-five-year cold...

Bubbles, speculation, fiat currencies, the Federal Reserve, and the nature of money and assets. These and more are some of the tantalizing reasons we couldn’t resist talking about bitcoin way back in 2013 (the last time it was going through a...

Follow the investing world for a couple decades, and you are sure to notice that at some point ideas seem to flow in and out of favor like prolonged and somewhat erratic seasons. There's a season for worrying about resource shortages, a season...

Usually we like to steer clear of topics that are too “newsish” here. Partly that’s because we have long believed that following the “noise” of the headlines first is a good way to lose money investing. The news media is incentivized to get you to...

As we are writing this, the stock market has backed off a little from its highs and the financial press is again starting to talk about risk being “back.” Nevertheless, over the last six years the U.S. stock market has moved markedly higher. The...